Study of liquid weeping at a tapered orifice in a bubble column reactor by a computer-aided image analysis algorithm

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3840-3848

  Hossain, Md Iqbal ^a   Pang, Si Qi ^a   Pang, Qing Xi ^a   Yang, Yanhui ^a   Lau, Raymond ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE COLUMN REACTORS; GAS DISTRIBUTOR; GAS VELOCITY; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; OPERATING CONDITION; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION MEASUREMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; BUBBLE COLUMNS; BUBBLE FORMATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIQUIDS;

ORIFICES;

EID: 77951177029     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901516f     Document Type: Article

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